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A jury found Hunter Biden guilty on Tuesday of federal gun charges in a historic first criminal prosecution of the child of a sitting US president.

The New Zealand economy is driven by agriculture with around 10 million cattle and 25 million sheep roaming the nation's pastures. Just under half of New Zealand's emissions come from agriculture, with cattle the main culprits. Cattle burps and flatulence emit methane gas while livestock urine leaks nitrous oxide into the atmosphere.

Researchers suggest that while dolphins and parrots have been observed addressing each other by mimicking the sound of others from their species, elephants are the first non-human animals known to use names that do not involve imitation.

A 73-year-old British man died and several other passengers and crew onboard flight SQ321 from London suffered skull, brain and spine injuries during the terrifying high-altitude ordeal.

The United Nations Security Council on Monday adopted a US-drafted resolution supporting a ceasefire plan in Gaza.

Several thieves used a car early Monday morning to ram-raid a Chanel store near the Champs-Elysees avenue in Paris before setting it on fire and fleeing in another vehicle, a police source said.

An Indian court has refused bail to a member of the Gupta family, linked to orchestrating industrial-scale corruption in South Africa, in connection with allegedly abetting the suicide of a businessman. The Indian-born Gupta brothers -- Atul, Ajay and Rajesh -- built a sprawling business empire in South Africa after moving there in 1993 as the country opened up to foreign investment when white-minority rule crumbled.

Israeli war cabinet minister Benny Gantz quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government on Sunday.

A man infected with H5N2 bird flu, the first confirmed human infection with the strain, died from multiple factors, the WHO said on Friday, adding that investigations were ongoing.